Up The Rocks

The stories from series ”D” are about one of my Dreams that came in true: I mean that’s the first climbing trip of mine In Europe. The authors of this trip are Aessandro Simoni and his nice family Daniela and Laura, who had visited Armenia last year for holidays and climbing. So, from July 1-20, I was invited to Italy to climb there and as well in Swiss.

Mio amico Ale has checked out by internet that the busses Verona-Arco work till 10pm. So when I arrived to Verona from Val Pellice at about 9:30pm, it appeared that the info found in internet was updated many-many years ago. So I managed to get Arco at about 2:00am by very fancy way (thanks to guys from street cafe in Rovereto ;)

After Mt Weissmies I got back to Florence to my friend Ale, Dani, Lau and nice guy Giacomo. The next days it was supposed to join Ale’s friend Filippo Romolli and climb the rock formation called Candalla close to the town Forte dei Marmi located on the seashore. Alessandro couldn’t join us again - being a professor of law makes your summer holidays become in a nightmare with endless students..

With the end of the Festival our motivation didn´t end! We saw so many lines, still unclimbed that we decided to spend one more week in Armenia for more first ascents! After two days checking out the rock in the north and destroying more and more Andranik’s car ;), we decided to go back to Arpa gorge to climb some more routes in these beautiful columns!